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Topic: could these be mini strokes? (Read 494 times)

I'm 22 and have been having migraines for almost a year. Lately if I have a cigarette first thing in the morning, I will get a crushing sensation below my ribcage to the right, and my eight arm/leg will go all numb for a few minutes but I can still move. I'm really scares they might be ministrokes. Has anyone ever had this?

You would have more symptoms, but you need to pack that smoking in as smoking CAN and DOES lead to health problems such as heart disease, strokes, cancer, a myriad of lung diseases such as COPD, so pack in that cigarette!

See your doctor about your symptoms and for help on stopping smoking :)

I already plan on quitting after the summer and I know I can, I just want one more summer of smoking along with drinking and whatnot. I know smoking is bad I just didn't think it would affect me at my age and considering I don't smoke a pack a day by any means

does anyone else have any input on this? This is actually quite frightening. My next doctors appointment isn't until the 11th, and im struggling to think of what this might be. I often get very clumsy, dizzy after this too for a few minutes. I've talked to other smokers and they have no idea what I'm talking about.

Would a ministroke be very noticeable? like would my right side be paralyzed/so numb I cant move it? If these are ministrokes this could be life or death.

I'll reiterate: I'll be standing, smoking a cigarette (and if its first thing in the morning I'm smoking it faster than normal and I might have breathed it into my abdomen rather than my lungs), I'll get a crushing sensation below my ribs toward the center/right of my stomach, and it almost feels like its swelling there, and then my arm/leg will go numb for a few minutes and I'll be quite dizzy, and sometimes I will also get that tunnel vision or when you go kind of blind like white noise on cable tv only gray comes over my eyes.

And I get it: smoking is bad for you. However, being 22, and that I rarely smoke more than half a pack a day if that, I don't think it should be solely to blame on cigarette smoking, so quit the after school special stuff. I really am terrified I might have a stroke soon. I'm a migraine sufferer and I've read that that puts me at a higher risk for a stroke too

No I already had this appointment scheduled for a while. This has happened to me a few times now and I've brushed it off as the effects of having a cigarette too early in the morning, but now that I've been reading about mini strokes and peoples experiences (at my age even) I am very concerned. Im pretty sure that these have been ministrokes now. whenever they have happened I have had to lay down for a few minutes

I really don't want to go to the clinic any sooner than the appointment if its for nothing. I've gotten to a point where when I have symptoms like this, I'm not looking for that "well theres a slight chance its xyz bad disease" but more of a "yeah that happens sometimes to people it probably isn't anything to worry about"

I've been reading online about nicotine rushes, and that people tend to have them in the morning, its possible that's what it might be but I'm still a little frightened.